About Love Your Italy

Hi! We’re Michal and Kristine! We’ve lived in Italy and travelled extensively all over it, again and again, and now we want to share this love with you. We love Italy so much we even got married there although almost no one could come to the wedding!

a bride and a groom - me and Michal - kissing next to lake Iseo with a rainbow behind us in the mountains
Our wedding was in Sarnico by Lake Iseo

So, you want to travel to Italy and you’re not sure about where to start your planning process? In that case, you’ve come to the right place!

Our mission is to help you explore Italy and find what is the thing YOU love about it.

There is something in Italy for everyone

hiking sentiero degli dei in italy - a couple holding hands on the trail with the blue Mediterranean sea visible in the background
Hiking the Sentiero degli Dei trail on Amalfi coast

That’s why the name – love your Italy.

Whether you like the sea or the mountains, sweet or savoury, it’s there, and we’re going to help you get there.

And that’s why we’re here – to help you find your Italy

Emma and I on Cala Capriccioli beach in Sardinia Italy. there are huge boulders with sunlight on them and turquoise Mediterranean sea water in the background
Emma and Kristine on Cala Capriccioli beach in Sardinia

If you’ve gotten to this website, you’re ready to travel to Italy, but you’re not sure where to start your planning.

You’ve always dreamed about travelling to Italy, but as soon as you start looking at the places to visit, you get confused.

Even if you’ve already chosen where to go, there’s still the itinerary, things to do, how to get around, and what to pack?!

You’ve tried figuring it out on your own, but it just gets so confusing.

I understand, it’s a huge country, and so diverse!

And that’s where we can help.

Our mission

chiesetta di san giovanni in val di funes dolomites italy with Seceda mountains in the background
St. John’s Church in the Dolomites

As we said:

Our mission is to help you explore Italy and find what is the thing you love about it

What makes us different from other bloggers is that since we can’t just drop everything – jobs, school etc. – to travel, we know how it is to try and squeeze everything in those two weeks of vacation or the long weekend.

Our itineraries for the places to visit are actually tried and tested – by us.

But if you want to change stuff around? No problem, we’ve got you covered! You get alternative things to do to choose from.

And we want to provide you with all the other things you need to know about travelling to Italy, too.

Getting around? Check.
When to go? Check!
Packing, eating, swimming, hiking – check, check, check and check!

We want to help you love Italy just as much as we love it.

In short – why we blog about Italy

kristine enjoying the view of the amalfi coast from ravello italy. holding a glass of rose wine, there's a foggy mediterranean sea in the background
  • To help you plan your trip to Italy
  • To show you the different places that are there
  • To make your vacation in Italy fun
  • And to show the 22-year-old me that travelling to Italy for the first time doesn’t have to be scary and confusing.

I truly believe that there is something in Italy for everyone and that you can find what you’re looking for

So why can you trust us? What’s our story?

kristine on a passage in cinque terre italy with the mediterranean sea and mountains in the background
Kristine in Cinque Terre

Our year and a half living in Italy changed us

a picture of hiking boots after hiking trenta passi near sarnico lago d iseo italy with the lake and monte isola island in the background
Kristine and Michal on a Trenta passi hike near Sarnico – you can see Lake Iseo. And yes, the colour really is like that.

We lived in Northern Italy, in a little village called Sarnico. It’s in the Bergamo province by Lake Iseo – pretty much in the middle between Lake Como and Lake Garda.

Everyone who visited us called it paradise, and we couldn’t agree more.

Life in Italy is just different. It’s Dolce Vita, you know?

The people are friendly, the scenery is magnificent, and the food – incredible!

And another thing living in Italy did?

Teach us all we need to know about travelling in Italy.

But how did we end up living in Italy in the first place?

kristine and michal in lago di braies dolomites italy with snowy mountains in the background
At Lago di Braies

Well, Michal and I met in 2015 when working for an airline together. After some time, Michal got a job offer from a different airline, and we had to figure out where we’d move to.

One of the things we both wanted was to be based somewhere where we could easily get to both of our countries – Latvia and Slovakia.

And when we saw that Bergamo was perfect!

Kristine’s first trip that she planned by herself was to Bergamo so Italy had a special place in her heart already.

Kristine standing on the piazza del duomo in Milan on a rainy morning, lots of people with umbrellas in the background
Baby Kristine in Milan on her first ever self-planned trip

And Michal, well, he had loved Italy for a long time before.

So it was really a no-brainer.

And while we lived in Italy…

Michal and I by Juliet's balcony in Verona. A lot of people looking at it and taking pictures. The house and balcony are made of stone and look old.

We explored so much of it!

Venice, Dolomites, Sardinia… and so many more places.

And even after moving away, we didn’t stop.

So how did we decide to start a blog for travelling to Italy?

Kristine in Varenna on Lake Como with colourful houses in the background

Ever since the beginning of our relationship, we’ve travelled extensively all over the world, even though we’ve worked and studied full-time. To teach others how to do that, we created our first blog – Wanderlust Designers.

But when we started writing about Italy, we realized that Italy is just something that we can write and write and write about.

So it clicked, we know so much about Italy – we knew we had to help others like you travel all around it.

And that’s the story

Me and Michal by the Tre Cime de Lavaredo mountains in Dolomites Italy during our hike
Hiking Tre Cime de Lavaredo in the Dolomites, Italy

Travelling to Italy and living there completely changed our lives. And now we get to help you travel there, too.

Now, go and explore the site!

And don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions, we’ll be happy to help.